I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue. ✨ On being aske…

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I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue. ✨ On being asked 'how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate', in Thomas Noon Talfourd 'Memoirs of Charles Lamb' (1892) p. 262
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